Bring on the anxious draftees in their boxy, pinstriped suits; bring on Chris Berman, Mel Kiper Jr. and their lungs full of hype; bring on those New York Jets fans and their green-faced psychodramas in the mezzanine.

The most noticeable instance was a pair of green-faced eight-day clocks, ticking alternately, which were severally two and half minutes and three minutes striking the hour of twelve, one proclaiming, in